Senate Democrats blocked Republicans on Thursday from passing two bills that would require companies to verify the legal status of people before they hire them, and stop the government from handing out child tax credits to illegal immigrants.

Sessions tried to get approval for the two bills after saying illegal immigration is swamping the U.S., which is leading to reduce wages for Americans and higher costs as these immigrants start improperly receiving federal tax benefits.

He first tried to pass the Accountability Through Electronic Verification Act, sponsored by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa.) That bill would require companies to verify whether possible employees are legally able to work in the country.

But Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) argued that this e-verify provision was in the Senates broad immigration bill that passed a year ago, and said Democrats arent looking to negotiate passage of sections of that bill.

We are not going to take that bill apart piece by piece, as the senator from Alabama suggests, Durbin said. I object.

Sessions said if the e-verify program can be accepted by Democrats in the larger bill, they should be able to approve it quickly this week.

[I]f its so good, why dont we bring it up and pass it now? Sessions asked. Why do we have to pass along with it a bill that will double the number of guest workers in the country, and would increase immigration?

Sessions then tried to pass the Child Tax Credit Integrity Preservation Act, which would change the law to ensure illegal immigrants cannot receive child tax credit benefits. But Durbin objected again, and seemed to indicate he believes these benefits should flow to non-citizens.

Americans were sold on the idea that illegals would fund the retirements of older Americans; the truth is that Americans are subsidizing the breeding, housing, schooling, and feeding of their replacements. Obama DID lie about ObamaCare (it does cover illegals), and ObamaCare is funded in part by cuts to MediCare. The money required to provide for older Americans is being squandered on illegals, and the older Americans will get death panels instead.

These aren’t even theories; it is happening in plain sight. What is happening along the border now has been happening here in NJ for decades.

These people are being let in to keep the schools open and housing vacancies down; they are the consumers that Americans won’t produce naturally. In a global economy, a country of 300+ million means nothing compared to two Asian giants of over 1 billion each.

Asia originally got our manufacturing jobs because they were cheaper; now they’ll keep them because more than half the population of the world (the consumers) LIVE THERE.

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